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Neuroscience and Pain Research

Culturally relevant pain solutions.

After training as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in India, the Kolling Institute's Dr Saurab Sharma returned to Nepal to treat patients with musculoskeletal pain conditions but quickly found that Western practices to assess and treat pain didn’t translate well to his community. One issue was the internationally-recognised numeric pain rating scale, where zero indicates no pain and 10 is maximum .....
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Category: Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

Practical tool to offer better informed care for people living with dementia.

Our researchers at the Kolling Institute are working to improve the use of medications for dementia with a comprehensive analysis highlighting several concerning trends. The latest data indicates more than 420,000 people are living with dementia in Australia, including more women than men. The condition is the second leading cause of death in Australia. Leading researcher and member of the Kolling’.....
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Category: Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

Award raises profile of early career research at the Kolling Institute.

Two of the Kolling Institute’s emerging leaders are gaining attention after receiving the ATA Scientific Encouragement Award. The award, which was launched more than a decade ago, aims to provide young scientists with financial assistance to further their education and attend scientific meetings and conferences. Scientific officer Kevin Winardi from the Kolling’s Lab of Ageing and Pharmacology will.....
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Category: Awards, Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

Research to improve postmenopausal women’s bone and muscle health.

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Category: Musculoskeletal Research, Neuroscience and Pain Research

Crucial steps towards gene therapy for debilitating Meniere’s disease.

Our researchers at the Kolling Institute are at the forefront of Meniere’s disease science developing the first humanised model of the disease ahead of gene therapy. The specialised team is led by world-leading Meniere’s disease researcher and neuroscientist Professor Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez who relocated from Spain to the institute to pursue his ground-breaking work. His talented team of seven .....
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Category: Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence, World-leading technology

Special Research Feature.

Our Kolling Institute Year in Review profiles our innovative and life-changing research across the Kolling Institute. Our researchers are driving investigations into some of the most challenging health conditions from heart and kidney disease to musculoskeletal conditions, chronic pain, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Our teams have continued to increase their research impact, while forging.....
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Category: Cardiovascular and Renal Research, Musculoskeletal Research, Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

World first research to develop cognitive impairment guidelines after spinal cord injury.

A team of researchers from the Kolling Institute’s John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research has launched a study to develop the first internationally accepted guidelines for assessing cognitive function after a spinal cord injury. The latest data indicates that over 15 million people globally live with a spinal cord injury, and in Australia, there are over 20,000 people living with the injury......
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Category: Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

Innovative musculoskeletal program heads to the bush.

In a sign of the strength of the Kolling Institute’s research and clinical capabilities, Professor Trudy Rebbeck has been awarded a $2.5 million grant to offer a musculoskeletal care program in rural and remote parts of Australia. As a Professor of Allied Health and a physiotherapist, Trudy will lead the collaborative project involving University of Sydney, NSLHD and Kolling Institute researchers M.....
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Category: Funding support, Musculoskeletal Research, Neuroscience and Pain Research, New Treatment

Recognition for emerging research leader.

We would like to congratulate our early career researcher Dr Nashwa Masnoon from the Kolling’s Ageing and Pharmacology Lab who has taken out the ATA Scientific Young Scientist Encouragement Award. Nashwa, who is a postdoctoral research pharmacist, clinched the $1500 prize for her assessment of the risks and benefits of using artificial intelligence in research. The award will enable her to attend a.....
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Category: Awards, Neuroscience and Pain Research, Research Excellence

Kolling Institute researchers instrumental in Australian first guidelines .

It has taken three years and many hours of careful work, but two researchers from the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research have developed the first clinical practice guidelines for physiotherapists to inform the care of people with life-changing spinal cord injuries. Physiotherapy is a key part of rehabilitation for people with a spinal cord injury, but until now, there has been no nationa.....
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Category: Neuroscience and Pain Research, New Treatment, Research Excellence